Squeezing mop



OCt. 31, VG KAWASAK| SQUEEZING MOP Filed May 51, 195o K9@ 1?@2@ 11793 l n J hox 34 A?" Inventor M 7?' W wv@ Patented oci. 31, 1933 y 1,932,466 sQUEEziNG Mor y Goro Kawasaki, Los Angeles, Calif. Appiieation May si, 1930. seria1N0.45s,1iz 1 claim. (o1. 15-119) An object of thisinvention is to provide means whereby the user of a mop may wash andthor oughly clean a mop-cloth without wetting or soiling his hands.

An object of the invention is to provide adevice of this character which machinery and in which the mop-cloth clamping parts are firmly held 'together by simplel and convenient resilient' means, and in which a sin-- f ple and conveniently secured spring is provide-Cl to apply pressure upon the mop-cloth to squeeze the water out of it, and toso arrange t e spring that it serves as ahandguard to avoid any likelihood of hurting the hand by operation of the 'L mop cloth holder and squeezer.

Another object is the provision of cheap and simple anti-friction ineans for applying the mop-cloth in the mop head and of using and cleansing the mop-cloth. Y

Other objects, advantages and features of in- `vention may appear from the accompanying drawing, the subjoined detailed description and the appended claim. l

The accompanying drawing illustrates the invention.

Figure 1 is an edge View of the mop ready for use in inopping. Y Y

Fig. 2 is a fiat side view of the device shown in Fig. 1, with parts in postion while squeezing water out of the mop-cloth.

Fig. 3 is a fragmental. edge view of the mopcloth holder and sdueezer with parts in position shown in Fig. l, but omittng the mop-cloth.

Fig. l is a section on line indicated by rfi, Fig. 5, and taken axially of the inop handle and levers Fand transversely 01"' theinop-cloth holder.

Fig'. 5 is a side view of the closed without the mop-cloth.

Fig. 6` is a view of the mop-cloth holder with` parts shown intermediate the clamping and leasing positions; the mop-cloth being omitted.

Fig. 7 is a View of the five parts of the mop head disassembled Without reversal.

Fig. 8 is a top view of the mop-cloth holder looking down from line :68, Fig. 6.

Fig. 9 is a View looking into the mop-cloth seat.

is easily rnade by mop-cloth holder Fig. 10 is a section on line 5:10, Fig. 5. l

11 's an end elevation Vof the mop-cloth seat. Y

' Fig. 12 is a section on line indicated at :612, Figs. 6 and l0. i

Fig. 13 is a section on line x13, Figs. 6, 9 and 10.

Fg. 141s a section on line 9:14, Figs. 6, 9 and l0.

Fig. l5 is a section on line indicated lat :615,` Figs. 6 and 1G;

This device comprises a inopoloth holder 1, a 65 handle 2 to the end of which the holder is fastened, and a mop cloth sqneezer having jaws 3, and slidably mounted relative to the mop cloth holder and handle by a slide Ll.

Said sdueezer jaws are carried by grip levers 5 pivoted to the slidebyrivets 6, and yieldingly. held towards each other bj a spring belt 'l rnounted by rests "1. on the grip levers, and serving as a fender to protect the hand of the operator at.

Ythe time the sdueezer is moved relative to the 754.

mop cloth holder.

In general'terms it is not new to provide, in

combination, a mop cloth holder, a mop cloth squeecer in slidable relation thereto, and provided with grip handles for opening the jaws of .the squeezer. The elements which might be vdefined by such broad terms are found in my Patent No. 1,137,760, patented Maya, 1915 for Mop, and over which rnop zny present invention is an improvement in various particulars.

Again referring to the drawing herein, the mop cloth holder comprises two plates 8 and 8', which are originally of like stainpings each adapted to constitute one-half of a mop crossehead and provided with a segmental handle socket iin-,90 print 9 provided with a perforation l0 to accommodate a handle securing rivet 11; and each plate is in the forin of a fiat web 12 and flaring marginal fiange 13 adapted and karranged to form with lar trough-like mop-cloth holding groove "14, when the plates are secured together by suitablev means as by the eyelet rivets 15 as shown in the drawing. l

By preference, the plates are mainly flat and are adapted to fit together'when they are'placed against each other with the conoavities of the irnprints 9 facing each other to fit the handle.

` The mop head is formed of the two plates suitably fastened together. 10

Each of said plateseornprisesa broad neck 16" and cross-head arins 1S', having the half handle socket imprint 9 and perforation 10;` and the cross-head is provided with inner mop cloth gripping teeth or .detents 17, and is provided in the flange of a companion plate, an anguu 95 The grooves formed by the cross-head flanges on each side of the neck or socket piece 16 form wire-holding seats 21. The plates are provided with holes 22 for the eyelet rivets 15 that hold the plates together.

In combination with the mop-head just described, there is provided a mop-cloth holder coniprising three spring wire links, one of which is the latch bar 20 and two oi which are attaching links 23, 24, that are mainly alike, as indicated in Fig. 7; the latch har 2O having at one end an eye 25 for pivotal engagement with one attaching link, and having the other end a hook 26 for detachable engagement with the other attaching link. Y

When the stampings 8, 8 have been riveted together as indicated in Figs. 5, 6, and l0, with their flat faces together the flaring edges .27, 27 of the cross-head arrns forming yopen grooves to receive and seat the tongues 23, 28 of the attaching links, and when the attaching tongue of link 28v has been seated, the flaring edges at 27' are crimped onto the end of the tongue 23 to nx said tongue to the `cross-head arm; and the remainder of the attaching link, including the coil 29, straight limb 30, bend 3l, intermediate liinb 32, bend 33 and eye 34, is :tree to act as a spring; and the attachinglatch bar 20, when nxed in the groove, extends around the end of the crosshead; and the eye 34 is transferred to the midplane of the attaching latch bar.

When the mop-cloth fastening device lis assembled asshown in Fig. 5 the latch bar 20 is placed under a strain by the tension oi the tongues 23, 23 and their spring coils 29; and the eye teri'ninated limbs ofthe links 23 and 24 exert a constant pressure upon said latch bar to hold .the mop-cloth i9 in the channel between the ilaring edges 27 at the lower edge of the cross-head.

The `flaring edges at the` top oi vthe cross-head limbs are both originally spread apart as indicated at 27 on the left side oi Fig. 8 to readily admit the tongue, as 28', of an attaching link, and after the tongue, as at 28', has been inserted into the corresponding seat 27', seen at the right in Figs. 6 and 8, the lips or flanges as at 27', of the seat will be crimped together over the link tongue marked 8 in Figs. 5 and 6, so as to hold said link in iixed position relative to the crosshead.

Said links 23, are each provided with an intermediate spring coil 29 and each is thence formed in a lirnb 30, a right angle bend`31, a limby 32, a bend 33, and terminates in an eye 34; and in practice, the link 23 is hinged by the eye 34 to the intermediateV latch bar 20.

The eye 34 and the bend of the hook 26 are in a common plane; and when the tongue 28 of the attached link 23 is seated in the seat therefor, and secured by crimping the edges of said seat over said tongue, as at 28', the eyes 34 and 34' of the attaching links 23, 24, extend transversely tothe mid-plane of the links and the spring extensions formed of the parts V30, 31, 32 and 33, play in the channel 35 between the uncrimped` portions of the flanges at the end of the cross-head, thus allowing the hook 26 to be inserted into the eye 34 of the link 23; and when the eye 34 of the link 23 is connected to the eye of the latch link 24, the tongue 28 can be inserted into the seat therefor at theopposite end of the cross-heads by which the latch bar 20 may be put under tension in the seat formed by the flanges.

The latch lever 24 thus acts in connection with the latch 20 to operate as 'a toggle joint to spring the parts together into the position shown in Fig. 5 when the link 24 is rolled over in the seat between the flanges.

The squeezer levers V5 are provided with end sockets 5 which are adapted respectively to seat the Shanks 36 and 36 of the roller carrying frames 37 and 37 on which the rollers 38 and 38 are mounted; the Shanks of one of said frames having at each end of the roller an extended loop 39 projecting across the ends of the `rnop head and across the opposite roller ira'me so that when the squeezer is shoved downk from the position shown in Fig. 2, thus to compress the mop-cloth 19 between the rollers, and thus to squeeze water out of the cloth, the extended loops 39 serve as guards at the sides of the mop-cloth. The handle ends of the levers 5 are bent outwardly as indicated, so that by squeezing the squeezer handles onto the mop handle, the inop squeezer frames or jaws are separated sufficiently to allow the soueezer to be drawn up past the cross head and to allow the mop-clothto hang down as indicated in Fig. l, during the return operation.

In practical use the parts-may be in the position shown in Figs. 1, 3 and 4, and by swinging the latch wire 20 down as will be readily understood, the mop-cloth can be brought into position on the latch wire 20 and then fastened as above desc 1ibed, and the scrubbing or mopping-of the iioor can be affected in the usual way, the cloth being wetted in a pail of water; and when-it is desired to squeeze the cloth into another vessel,

or elsewhere, the operator will shove down .on

the slide 4, thus shoving the squeezing rollers down to express the water from the mop cloth; then the squeezing rollers may be retracted by reverse movement of the slide 4 and the inopcloth may be rinsed or dipped into the water in the pail; and if desired the excess water may be squeezed out by operating the squeezer as above.

described, and the work maybe proceeded with in the manner readily understood from the foregoing.

In a mop providedwith a handle and a cross head and means to secure a vmop-cloth to the cross head; squeezing iraines of wire provided with rollers; one of said frames having opposite sides bent into loops extending across the other frame and the intermediatespace, to forni" a guide-way for the inop cloth; handles secured to,V

said frames; a slide movable longitudinally-of the inop handle to which. the handles are pivoted and spring means for pressing-the squeezer frames toward each other. Y f

GORO KAWASAKI. 

